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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, has condemned the police attack on newspaper staff in Noida, India on May Day, 1 May. "Attacks on newspaper staff peacefully demonstrating for their due rights are a grave assault on workers’ rights to organise and rights to freedom of expression," said IFJ President...

Two years after the first foreign investment in India's print media, Indian publishers are raising record sums from private equity funds and public markets to finance ambitious growth plans. Newspapers in India are suddenly outgrowing other media -- unlike slumping readership and advertising at newspapers across the U.S. and Europe -- and investors like what they see. In the last fiscal year to...

The worldwide toll of journalists and critical support staff killed covering the story is spiralling. Last year was the deadliest in at least a decade. So far this year, the International News Safety Institute has recorded 19 members of the news media killed at work in 11 countries, all but two of them murdered and no one brought to justice. In great swathes of the world, across many countries...

Navi Mumbai or New Bombay, which lies to the north east of Mumbai, will be the printing hub for new entrants Hindustan Times and DNA. The players are currently setting up printing units at Airoli (HT) and Mahape (DNA) in the region. And, if the grapevine is to be believed, then even Bennett, Coleman & Co (BCCL) is looking to set up an additional printing facility in the region, though there is no...

Nearly half of U.S. marketers plan to spend less this year on newspapers, magazines, direct mail and other traditional advertising channels, so they can spend more online, a study released Tuesday showed. The cause for the shift is the change in consumer behavior, according to Forrester Research Inc., which published the study, "U.S. Online Marketing Forecast: 2005 to 2010." An increasing number...

Iraq is the world's most dangerous country for journalists and the place where the most are kidnapped. 56 journalists and media assistants have been killed there since the fighting began on 22 March 2003 and 29 kidnapped. The Iraq conflict is the deadliest inter-state war for journalists since the one in Vietnam, when 63 were killed, but over a period of 20 years (1955-75). During the fighting in...

The new wage board for newspaper and news agency employees would be constituted as soon, Union Labour Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao said on Sunday. To a question on the long-pending demand of the employees, he told reporters here that all the papers with regard to the matter were with him.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, today condemned the harassment of senior journalist Anand Swaroop Verma by the Central Bureau of Investigation in India. "Harassment of journalists for their truth telling represents a curtailment of press freedom that must be resisted," said IFJ President Christopher Warren...

Google has plans that will dramatically improve the results of internet news searches, by ranking them according to quality rather than simply by their date and relevance to search terms. The ambitious system is revealed by patents filed in the US and around the world (WO 2005/029368) by researchers based at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California. At the moment the company's...

Come May 1, Hindustan Times' Delhi edition will have a completely new look. While none of the HT executives were available for comments, industry sources informed that Hindustan Times will now have a new-look masthead for its Delhi edition. Other significant changes include overall design in each of the pages, inclusion of more pictures. Sources said, the newspaper's pages will now be more photo...